Hello and what time does your Corgi wake up?

[DaisyWooWoo]

Hello---I am coming out of "lurkdom" to ask a question. I have a fabulous corgi girl named Daisy, just turned one in February. It has been a great year with her and we have totally fallen under her spell! So here is my question......what time does your dog wake up? We let Daisy sleep at the foot of our bed, lately she has been waking us up at 5:00am!! I am an early riser but that is just too early! If I ignore her she whines at my bedroom door, and I worry she would pee on the rug. I don't want to let her out of my room because she will try to wake up my 7 year old. If I let her outside for potty then I am too awake to go back to sleep myself. We have tried keeping her up later at night but she becomes very crabby at our attempts to disturb her when she is ready to fall asleep at 8:30. What to do? Do your dogs have their own schedule?

Thanks in advance, love reading along about all your dogs.....they are just THE BEST!!

Samantha & Daisy Woo Woo

[Mvons]

By one year ours had a schedule the same as us getting up at 6am and boy she knew when 6pm was for her second meal.

There was a period where she woke at 5am. Luckily I happen to wake up earlier one time and realized it was a neighbor's diesel truck starting up and waking her. So listen and see if anything outside is doing the waking.

Oh lovely, I just realized we have the problem at this home with a semi-truck sometimes waking me up. Should make things interesting when we get a puppy.

When she was a senior, she was content to sleep in on Saturdays until 8am.

I did have her crate as my nightstand, and I remember tapping the crate door saying quiet. With her washable bedding, it was worth the risk to get my sleep and not be a grump to all. But as an elder dog, her bladder ruled me, she finally won who got who up.

Merrie

[Louwants]

Three to four times a week, I have to get up at 5:30 AM to get ready for work. So, on my days off, if I get to sleep in until 6:00, things are good.LOL
I have piddle pads down for Duncan for the times I want to sleep in and because of my husbands and my work schedule when we first got him, He would be alone for 9 hours or more. He is very good at using them and I never had to crate him up. I never got in the habit of the crate, but at times I wish I did. The only time he was crated was after his "big boy" surgery, and that was to keep him quiet for a day or two.

[Chip's Mom]

Chip is a late sleeper - some mornings it is 7:30 - 8:00 before he gets out of bed but once in awhile he goes out in the night. He will wake us up or if my husband wakes up, he will take them out and he comes right back inside. Most nights he sleeps through though and Dale is the same way but he needs to go out by 6:00 and then comes back to bed to sleep for a little while longer.

[Michael Romanos]

My Pem goes to bed when I go to bed - and that can be as late as 2am in the morning. I have always believed that a Corgi who is past the puppy stages, doesn't need or want an early to bed routine. My wife gets up first on weekdays and Taylor more than often stays with me until I get up at around 7.30am. Most nights I take Taylor on a short toilet (weeing) walk just before bed time. He has never moaned to get out of our bedroom door yet. So with your Corgi it could be a matter of changing her routine or it could be to teach her not to interrupt your sleep so early in the mornings. It just requires a few days of getting her to understand what is required of her. One way you can try is to get up when she transgresses, tell her off firmly and then pick her up and put her in a quiet place such as the bathroom or laundry or maybe the garage - if it is an internal one. And leave her there. And if all is qiuiet when you do have to get up at the normal time, let her out of the room she is in. This could produce the results you want. She may not feel inclined to moan so early in the morning after several days.

[Chip's Mom]

Michael - isolate our corgis to a cold garage just because we want to sleep in

[tandemgal]

Hubby is a shift worker. Works 12 hour shifts - either 6a/6p or 6p/6a so our times are all messed up. When he works the 6a shift he gets up at 4:30a...
so when he is off or working the night shift Chloe still wants to get up around 5a to go outside.

Emma who is 7 1/2 sleeps later now... she usually sleeps under our bed but last few months since been cold she likes to sleep in the crate on the fluffy pillow... better on her older bones. Normally if I am asleep she wakes me by shaking her head once or twice making her ears "clap" She has Chloe doing this too when I hear the Ears I know The Girls means business!

[darci]

hubby gets up at 5:30 am during the week, so weekend comes sometimes they will sleep later and sometimes they will wake me up at 4 am for playtime. Argh....

[ColColt]

Normally if I am asleep she wakes me by shaking her head once or twice making her ears "clap" She has Chloe doing this too when I hear the Ears I know The Girls means business!

I read this a little while ago and nearly sprayed Cherrios on my monitor!! That was great. You have to love those Corgis.

[Jeni D]

Dudley, who is now a one-year-old, is content to sleep as late as we do. He'll even sometimes go back to bed after he has gone out. Maya, on the other hand, who is 11 weeks, wakes up at 6 a.m. at the very latest. We have started taking her outside to go potty at midnight just to get her to sleep this late.

[Peggy]

Originally Posted by DaisyWooWoo

......what time does your dog wake up?

Too d**n early. But then so does my husband. On week days he gets up at 5:30 so they do too. On weekends they sleep in a bit, usually till about 8.

Try having her sleep in a crate until she gets the idea that she should sleep till you get up. Also try picking up her water around 8 pm. That way she might not need to go out so early if that is what is getting her up.

If it's just "her" schedule, try making her wait 15 min. longer every few days. Tell her "no, go back to bed".

We expect my dogs to conform to our schedule mostly. And yes, at times one will need to go out at an unexpected time. That doesn't mean everyone gets to go out though.

Peggy

[Chip's Mom]

Poor Lady has to go out in the night alot with her kidney disease and it takes her about 2 seconds then the others wake up and go out one by one. Poor hubby - he is a light sleeper and I normally snooze right through. If one goes out - Dales goes to rather he wants to or not - housetraining issues.

[milosmom]

Milo goes to bed and gets up when I do. No matter how late I go to bed, be it 10 pm or 3 am, he always gets a "last call" piddle opportunity. Weekdays I get up at 7 am but on weekends it can be as late as 10 am and he is fine. However, he'd sit and whine at me while I set up the coffee pot before I took him out; so I solved that and got a coffee pot with a programmable timer so he doesn't have to wait!!

[Clogs]

Clogs sleeps and rises when we do, no matter the time. She gets a last minute piddle at night, just before we go to bed and that generally does her. The only execptions have been a couple of times when she had an upset system, and needed to go out in the night. Unfortunately, she doesn't give any verbal indications; just goes and sits by the door. If we don't wake, she runs between the bed and the door until one of us - inevitably me - does wake. The clicky claws on the wooden floor is a dead give-away.

[Hayashi_eri]

Buta sleeps & wakes up the same time as I do.
Mon-Fri: wakes at 7am & sleeps at about 10:30pm.
Sat: Wakes up at 11pm or later & sleeps at 12am or 1am.
Sun: Wakes up at 11pm or later & sleeps at 10:30pm.

Not forgetting that she naps thru the day whenever she can